broker a pander, a procuress, a go-between:
“a goodly broker,”
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, i. 2.
41
;
“This bawd, this broker,”
KING JOHN, ii. 1. 582
;
“To play the broker in mine own behalf,”
3 HENRY VI., iv. 1. 63
;
“Hence, broker-lackey,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 10.
33
;
“all brokers-between,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 2.
199
;
“they are brokers,”
HAMLET, i. 3. 127
;
“brokers to defiling,”
A LOVER'S COMPLAINT, 173.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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